Homeland Season 3 Episode 8 recap It’s hard not to fixate on details like this because they come in such an unusual way. Little dribs and drabs of relationship issues and personal lives that are in such stark contrast to the mechanics of the CIA’s day-to-day. But seriously. Full Story

Homeland Season 3 Episode 4 recap They got me. In fact, a little Twitter scrolling before I watched the episode tipped me off to the twist, and I still didn’t see it coming in precisely the way that it did. Before we get serious here, can we just shout out to my Virgil? Back for just a small scene but boy did he make it count. Full Story

It’s partly her own doing, I think. Had she showed up just on her own as Claire Danes, then she would have just been Claire Danes and the hair and the tan and that dress, which is not getting enough criticism, would have been judged on their own. But she showed up for most people’s first time on Ryan Seacrest’s carpet, hijacking the Lena Dunham interview and essentially pushing him off camera. Full Story

Apart from JLO Slum Loving down the occasion... God that was satisfying. The Dress Porn at the Costume Institute Gala was satisfying, wasn’t it? That’s what’s great about Dress Porn -- even when it’s bad, it’s GREAT. Read Full Intro

One month ago today – Monday – is when she had the baby. A BABY. She was completely and totally pregnant (and striding around Toronto, I thought he was going to be Canadian) and then this is the result a week later. I mean, I don’t know what to say except that’s genetics and discipline and commitment to your goals, and this happens sometimes. Full Story

Cyrus Michael Christopher Dancy Weatherby George Dupree Took Great Care Of His Mother Though He Was Only Three This was the first thing I thought of when I heard the Danes-Dancy baby name. Do you remember that poem from “When We Were Very Young”? It’s always entertained me; the idea of a tiny boy bossing his mummy is amusing for some reason, immediately before it becomes pathological and strange. Full Story

(Like the title was going to be anything else.) Homeland Season 2 Episode 7 recap I remain convinced that a threat is closer than ever, mostly because the show keeps telling me so – but in an episode that had a lot to do with marking time, we remember why Homeland is such a phenomenon: it understands not only the dramatic lives of CIA agents, but also the relatively banal internal lives of teenagers and families. Full Story

Homeland Episodes 9-12 Oh, Isa. Oh ,Brody. This was a tough, tough four episodes to watch. Only 12 episodes to tell this story – and I completely understand why they went the way they did. Learning about Brody’s plans any earlier would have made us more and more sure that he was going to remain one of the “good guys”, or made us more convinced that Carrie was going to be ineffectual. Full Story

Claire Danes is like Kristen Bell for Duana now: a blind spot. Duana loves Veronica Mars so much she makes allowances for Bell. And since she loved MSCL so much and now Homeland, she wouldn’t hear it from me when I raged about Danes’s humourless face all night during the show. Also I guess we’re not supposed to talk sh-t about people who are carrying babies because mothers are holy and beyond reproach. Full Story

Here are the things that, are far as I can see, we can still believe to be true because we haven’t seen them to be false yet. My new move with Homeland is that only what I physically see is true, and even then, it better not be in a flashback. So. Carrie seems incapable of lying. Full Story

Homeland TurboWatch Episodes 5 & 6 Click here and here for the first two installments of TurboWatch. What the ever loving f*ck, Carrie? The one thing I never doubt is Carrie’s commitment to her job. Full Story